Adoph Hitler is attempting to overcompensate for an inferiority complex, said Professor Joseph Jastrow, psychologist, in an interview with the Jewish Daidly Bulletin.
“He has beeh lifted to the position where he can satisfy his megalomanai,” Dr. Jastrow explained, “and his actions show that he is undoubtedly a mild type of psychopathic individual.” Discussing the “Aryan theory”. Dr. Jastrow declared that “a racial argument based on heredity becomes an absurdity under our modern civilization, because of the intermarriage among races. The Aryan theory is an imaginary system concocted by the Prussians. The word ‘Aryan’ has in itself no real meaning; it is simply a name that scientists give to a common language stock.”
In the opinion of the psychologist, the attituce of the German people is not to be explained away by theories of mob psychology. “The German people,” he said, “has been suppressed. If things were to turn so that Hitler would lose his more rational than ever before.” He quoted statistics to the effect that there are more than 250,000 leaders opposing Hitler in Germany today.
“Hitler himself realizes this,” said Dr. Jastrow. “and he has decided that the only way to keep his opponents down is by oppresion.”
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